Help with access to journal articles

[ChildNeuro]

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Does anyone know of any service that you can pay a yearly fee (like maybe $150) to and get access to pdf versions of many different articles from different top journals i.e. pediatrics, . . .? I have nejm, but this is limiting when I need to research something, any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you in advance!

ChildNeuro

 

[fun8stuff]

Does anyone know of any service that you can pay a yearly fee (like maybe $150) to and get access to pdf versions of many different articles from different top journals i.e. pediatrics, . . .? I have nejm, but this is limiting when I need to research something, any help would be very much appreciated! Thank you in advance!

ChildNeuro

our med school and hospitals provide access to MANY, MANY journals (online and printed form). We can even get access to the online ones from home. You should talk to someone at your school.. i would be surprised if your school or hospital did not provide this for you...

 

[QuinnB]

having access to pubmed is all you need; medline, cochrane, et al, help, although I've noticed that to get pdf copies of most articles (at least all of the important ones in each field), pubmed has worked very well.

 

[angel80]

having access to pubmed is all you need; medline, cochrane, et al, help, although I've noticed that to get pdf copies of most articles (at least all of the important ones in each field), pubmed has worked very well.

You can only get PDF copies through PubMed if your school, hospital, or whoever you get PubMed through, subscribes to that journal online, or if the journal is free online. PubMed isn't giving you the PDF, your school/hospital is linking it's subscriptions with PubMed.

 

[QuinnB]

the above was implied - when I said "having access," as opposed to "just going and getting it." I would think that a medical school would have a subscription and you just need to obtain the username/password.

 

[ChildNeuro]

Alot of the good journals aren't covered by my school, and alot of worthless abstracts without the full pdf popup without the full article.

 

[fakin' the funk]

If you have MDConsult access also, that provides access to many journals.

 

[BlackNDecker]

I noticed that nobody mentioned uptodateonline.com...I know that it has it's shortcomings, but it sounds like this is exactly what you're looking for. If your school doesn't provide you with access, you could subscribe for about what you quoted.

 

[ChildNeuro]

I noticed that nobody mentioned uptodateonline.com...I know that it has it's shortcomings, but it sounds like this is exactly what you're looking for. If your school doesn't provide you with access, you could subscribe for about what you quoted.

thanks for all the info everybody. I have used UpToDate when I am in a pinch on a clinical rotation, I know some people love it, I have found that it has errors and it takes conclusions from large meta-analysis and turns it into standard of care, especially in situations that are controversial, and it goes into a level of depth less than a comprehensive textbook and much less than a journal article on a specific topic, I wish I could learn to love it like other people but I can't stand it, I don't want someone digesting my articles for me, I need the primary source (historians make a big deal about this, but I think it applies to clinical medicine as well), in a sense I *am* my own UpToDate. . .

 

[JayneCobb]

Ovid is an option, but I have no clue how much it costs and I did not want to take the time to jump through their hoops to get a quote. I would imagine that it's not cheap.